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Oliver Cromwell Cox was arguably one of the most controversial mid-twentieth-century social scientists.

 “Once the most important and popular play place of the Tri-State district,” Lakeside Park in Jasper County, Missouri, opened to the public in 1895.

Sebastien Louis Meurin served as the parish priest in Ste. Genevieve from 1764 through 1768 and conducted the first Catholic services in the settlement of St. Louis from 1766 to 1769.

Arnold Krekel, who served from 1865 to 1888 as a US judge for the Western District of Missouri, was born on March 12, 1815, in Langenfeld, near Düsseldorf, in Prussia.

Paul Follenius, the cofounder with Friedrich Muench of the Giessen Emigration Society and the third son of a lawyer at the Hes

Kansas City’s sports fans might be forgiven for overlooking or choosing to forget that American League baseball did not begin in their city with the Royals in 1969. But before the Kansas City Royals, there were the Kansas City Athletics.

Henry Marvin Belden, a pioneer in the study of Missouri balladry and song, was born October 3, 1865, in Wilton, Connecticut, the second of five sons in an old New England family of modest means.

George Catlin was among the earliest Euro-American artists to paint the Indigenous peoples and landscapes of the Great Plains.